"Leading" internet service provider glides into new partnership with cloud computing specialists

Business and residential ISP, Glide Group, is adding the UK’s most advanced backup and recoverability service for Microsoft 365 to its thriving product range, after forming a new partnership with industry leader virtualDCS.

As part of the agreement, Glide is now offering virtualDCS’s CloudCover 365 and Veeam Cloud Connect solutions to its commercial customers, ranging from micro-businesses and SMEs to large corporates, alongside its ultra-fast, full-fibre broadband services.

CloudCover 365 is a world leading Veeam powered self-service Microsoft 365 backup portal, meaning individual end users can quickly and easily view and restore their own data, without the support of IT specialists. The product fully backs up all aspects of Microsoft 365, including email, contacts, public folders, Teams, documents in One Drive and the intranet service, SharePoint.

Veeam Cloud Connect offers an off-site backup solution to protect virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads without the cost or complexity of building and maintaining a secondary off-site infrastructure.

Glide will officially unveil the new partnership and products at Connected North, the dedicated digital economy event, on the 17th and 18th April in Manchester.

Glide is now the seventh largest ISP in the UK and manages some of the country’s largest WiFi networks, with more than 100,000 access points and a 500GB core network. The company’s fibre networks link most UK cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh.

Video game digital distribution service, Steam, recently named Glide as the fastest ISP in the UK in terms of average download speeds. In addition to the UK, the company is also expanding across Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands.

Glide has already spent two years using Veeam Cloud Connect for its own in-house backup. Harbans Rall, head of product from Glide, said: “After experiencing first-hand the quality of virtualDCS’s products and customer service levels, this is an exciting opportunity to further enhance the range of services that we offer our customers.

“CloudCover 365 offers a cost-effective and easy to use solution to this problem and, along with Veeam Cloud Connect, it will complement the existing broadband, security and voice communication products and services that we already offer. We’re really looking forward to highlighting the benefits of these products at Connected North in April.”

Richard May, managing director of virtualDCS, added: “The fact that Glide has taken the decision to sell our products to their customers, after gaining a first-hand understanding of their market-leading features over the past two years, is a superb endorsement for what we do.

“It also further endorses our decision in 2021 to solely focus on providing infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services, with UK data sovereignty, to IT partners that want to offer cloud-based backup services to their clients and end-users. We’re very excited to launch this partnership with Glide and we’re already talking to them about expanding the offering with further products in the near future.”

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily

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